Qualla: Nantwich https://qualla.com/nantwich en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/j/nantwich-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Nantwich https://qualla.com/nantwich Nantwich: Introduction https://qualla.com/nantwich/ Photo credit Espresso Addict, CC BY-SA 3.0. In December 1583 most of Nantwich burned. The fire began in the centre and ate eastward through the timber-framed houses until only Churche's Mansion and a scatter of buildings on the wrong side of the wind stood. Elizabeth I, told of the disaster, sent funds and ordered an England-wide appeal that brought money from as far as Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. The town was rebuilt within a few years, on exactly the same plan, with timber from Delamere Forest hauled in along the street that was renamed Beam Street to remember the work. Four centuries later, Nantwich has one of the highest concentrations of listed buildings in England. Walk down High Street and you are walking through a town that has consciously chosen to keep being itself.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/j/nantwich-wp/gcqj-nantwich-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Nantwich: Salt, Brine, and the Roman Garrison https://qualla.com/nantwich/ Photo credit Ronnie Macdonald from Chelmsford, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0. The name carries the story. Nant comes from the Welsh for stream or brook; wich and wych are Anglo-Saxon names for a brine spring. Long before the Romans arrived, a Celtic nemeton or sacred grove may have stood on these springs, and a 1194 record of the town as Nametwihc preserve...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/j/nantwich-wp/gcqj-nantwich-salt-brine-and-the-roman-garrison.mp3 0:06 2 full Nantwich: The Siege and Holly Holy Day https://qualla.com/nantwich/ Photo credit chestertouristcom, CC BY-SA 2.0. When civil war broke out in 1642, Nantwich declared for Parliament. Royalist forces besieged the town several times, with the last siege lasting six weeks through the winter of 1643 and 1644. Sir Thomas Fairfax broke the Royalist lines outside town on 26 January 1644, scattering ...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/j/nantwich-wp/gcqj-nantwich-the-siege-and-holly-holy-day.mp3 0:06 3 full Nantwich: The Half-Timbered Town https://qualla.com/nantwich/ Photo credit Mike in Macc, CC BY-SA 3.0. Nantwich has one of the county's largest collections of historic buildings, second only to Chester. They cluster along Barker Street, Beam Street, Churchyard Side, High Street and Hospital Street, and continue west across the River Weaver along Welsh Row. The oldest listed buildi...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/j/nantwich-wp/gcqj-nantwich-the-half-timbered-town.mp3 0:06 4 full Nantwich: Brine Baths and Cheese Fairs https://qualla.com/nantwich/ Photo credit Martin Richard Phelan, CC BY-SA 2.0. The brine that built Roman Cheshire kept working through the Victorian period in a different form. The Brine Baths Hotel opened south of town in the 1890s, advertising the "strongest saline baths in the world" alongside tennis courts and a nine-hole golf course. The hotel served ...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/j/nantwich-wp/gcqj-nantwich-brine-baths-and-cheese-fairs.mp3 0:06 5 full Nantwich: People Born in the Brine https://qualla.com/nantwich/ Photo credit John Lavery, Public domain. John Gerard, born in Nantwich in 1545, wrote the Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes (1597), one of the first great English works of botany. Joseph Priestley, co-discoverer of oxygen, lived in the town from 1758 to 1761. Sir William Bowman, born here in 1816, is remembered in...

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